1001teachers Wiki: Open Invitation

A wiki to manage a wiki: it may sound funny, but I think it’s the solution to getting all interested teachers on one space to huddle and coordinate.

Whether you want your students to add their stories now, next month, or next year, you’re invited to join the 1001teachers wiki now. Foreign language stories now welcome.

Chad Ball in New Brunswick, Canada, signed in within ten minutes of it opening His 14-15 year-olds will be joining Michele Davis‘ in Colorado, and my own in Korea, shortly. Chris Watson in Hawaii seems close behind. [Update: Terry Smith in Hannibal, Missouri--grade 4 teacher--just joined 1001teachers as well. His kids have already written stories for the site, and are eagerly awaiting connections!]

Things are starting to gel. Jump in first, and trust that you can swim.

I’d like to start some weekly or bi-weekly podcasts of Skype conference calls of participating teachers. It’s free and easy, and I bought the software to record with one click of a button (thanks, Christopher Craft, for the tip). Our reflections and brainstorms about this new world should be worth a share.

Errata: I’m finding ePals a bit frustrating. They seem to “wall” all collaboration efforts within their system, which makes it difficult to do simple things like say, “Hey, email me and visit my wiki. Here are the addresses.” Very closed and restrictive. How do I get Serbia to play when I can’t meet Serbia on the free worldwide web? *Sigh* (Or am I wrong? Anybody have advice about this? I’m new to ePals.)

My local colleague’s grade 5 “Tuck Everlasting” wiki from yesterday’s post will, I think, be open for viewing and (I hope) connecting with other classrooms soon. The teacher and I are going to talk about it over a glass of wine tomorrow after work. She’s new at this, and already willing to talk about connecting her kids. So very admirable.

That Romeo and Juliet “ballet” I looked forward to last weekend? Pfft. It turned out to be a very cheesy French Broadway-type musical. Pathetic and bathetic. My girlfriend and I left after 20 minutes. I thought it was going to be Prokofiev.

I’m putting a link to the 1001teachers wiki on the sidebar, fyi.

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